Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 238 295
Rank change year-on-year -56 +57 -78
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 501 528 872
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.29% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.39% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 209 305 496
10th Percentile £42,778 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +3.70% -5.26%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £100,000 £112,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -6.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,207 38,067 76,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.10% 93.27% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36,835 22,259 57,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -43 453 £74,000 +5.71% 221
London +41 258 £90,000 +24.14% 105
Work from Home +36 221 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -115 191 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -42 60 £75,000 -4.76% 31
South East -114 42 £57,500 -11.54% 47
North West -17 36 £83,750 +4.69% 16
Midlands -42 36 £63,076 -2.96% 19
West Midlands -16 26 £58,750 -9.62% 11
East of England -11 22 £60,100 -7.54% 21
Yorkshire -49 21 £65,793 +102.44% 13
South West -63 18 £62,500 -3.29% 12
Northern Ireland - 11 £75,000 - 1
East Midlands -51 10 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Scotland -35 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Wales - 4 £61,001 - 6
North East -27 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.59%) Confluence
2 11 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) CICS
4 2 (0.40%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 16 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.60%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Workfront
2 9 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (12.38%) AWS
1 62 (12.38%) SaaS
2 52 (10.38%) Azure
3 21 (4.19%) Power Platform
4 19 (3.79%) Pulumi
5 18 (3.59%) iPaaS
6 15 (2.99%) GCP
6 15 (2.99%) GitHub
7 14 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.80%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.80%) PaaS
10 8 (1.60%) H2O.ai
10 8 (1.60%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.00%) Asana
11 5 (1.00%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.80%) Collibra
12 4 (0.80%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.58%) Broadband
2 13 (2.59%) HTTP
3 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.60%) WAN
4 6 (1.20%) LAN
4 6 (1.20%) RTP
5 4 (0.80%) NGN
6 3 (0.60%) Multicast
6 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.60%) Wireless
7 2 (0.40%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) Firewall
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.39%) Metadata
2 20 (3.99%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.99%) Power BI
2 20 (3.99%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.99%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.40%) Tableau
5 6 (1.20%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.20%) SAP BW
5 6 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.40%) Big Data
7 2 (0.40%) DB2
8 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (4.99%) JIRA
2 19 (3.79%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.60%) ERwin
3 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Git
General
1 187 (37.33%) Finance
2 173 (34.53%) Social Skills
3 131 (26.15%) Marketing
4 91 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (13.57%) Banking
6 63 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (10.38%) Retail
8 48 (9.58%) Law
9 41 (8.18%) Legal
10 38 (7.58%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (7.39%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (5.99%) Financial Institution
13 28 (5.59%) Public Sector
14 27 (5.39%) Back Office
15 22 (4.39%) Manufacturing
16 17 (3.39%) Digital Economy
16 17 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (2.20%) Automotive
17 11 (2.20%) Italian Language
18 10 (2.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (28.14%) Product Manager
2 72 (14.37%) Lead
3 68 (13.57%) Senior
4 41 (8.18%) Product Owner
5 36 (7.19%) Senior Manager
6 31 (6.19%) Senior Product Manager
7 19 (3.79%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.59%) Developer
9 17 (3.39%) Consultant
9 17 (3.39%) Digital Product Manager
10 16 (3.19%) Change Manager
11 14 (2.79%) Development Engineer
11 14 (2.79%) Product Management Director
11 14 (2.79%) Software Engineer
12 13 (2.59%) Software Development Engineer
13 12 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.40%) Data Manager
14 11 (2.20%) Business Consultant
14 11 (2.20%) Security Engineer
14 11 (2.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
2 16 (3.19%) REST
3 9 (1.80%) YAML
4 8 (1.60%) Keras
4 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
4 8 (1.60%) TensorFlow
5 4 (0.80%) .NET
6 3 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.40%) CSS
7 2 (0.40%) HTML
7 2 (0.40%) Next.js
7 2 (0.40%) Spring
7 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.20%) Flask
8 1 (0.20%) PySpark
8 1 (0.20%) React
8 1 (0.20%) RESTful
8 1 (0.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (22.95%) Product Ownership
2 33 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 32 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 29 (5.79%) Social Media
5 28 (5.59%) Cloud Native
6 20 (3.99%) Marketing Technology
7 19 (3.79%) Over-the-Top Content
8 14 (2.79%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.40%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.20%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.20%) IoT
13 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.20%) Podcast
13 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.59%) Linux
2 19 (3.79%) Unix
3 6 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (55.69%) Roadmaps
2 231 (46.11%) Agile
3 138 (27.54%) Product Roadmap
4 109 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 109 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 102 (20.36%) Product Strategy
6 101 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (19.36%) AI
8 94 (18.76%) Mentoring
9 93 (18.56%) Product Vision
10 80 (15.97%) Decision-Making
11 78 (15.57%) Analytics
12 72 (14.37%) User Experience
13 66 (13.17%) User Stories
14 64 (12.77%) Coaching
15 61 (12.18%) Business Development
16 59 (11.78%) Customer Experience
17 58 (11.58%) Project Management
18 57 (11.38%) DevOps
18 57 (11.38%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.58%) Python
2 37 (7.39%) Java
3 27 (5.39%) SQL
4 25 (4.99%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.99%) Go
6 19 (3.79%) Bash
7 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.00%) Bicep
9 4 (0.80%) C#
10 2 (0.40%) COBOL
10 2 (0.40%) JCL
10 2 (0.40%) PHP
10 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (18.56%) Degree
2 36 (7.19%) Master's Degree
3 29 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.59%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.99%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.20%) PMP
9 5 (1.00%) MBA
10 4 (0.80%) HNC
11 3 (0.60%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.40%) CBAP
12 2 (0.40%) CCNA
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.79%) QA
2 13 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.00%) NCSC
6 9 (1.80%) NIST
7 7 (1.40%) GDPR
8 5 (1.00%) PMO
9 4 (0.80%) IFRS
9 4 (0.80%) SLA
10 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.60%) PERC
11 2 (0.40%) COREP
11 2 (0.40%) FINREP
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.20%) GMP
12 1 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (5.79%) Terraform
2 23 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.79%) Ansible
3 19 (3.79%) Argo
3 19 (3.79%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.99%) Google
3 27 (5.39%) Adobe
4 13 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.80%) Oracle
6 8 (1.60%) Databricks
6 8 (1.60%) Dell
6 8 (1.60%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.40%) SAP
8 6 (1.20%) Foundry
9 4 (0.80%) Sage
9 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
9 4 (0.80%) YouTube
10 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.60%) CQG
10 3 (0.60%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.60%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.60%) Reuters
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Trayport